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“When I buy a new book, I don’t start reading the first page. I smell it.”
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Old Guitars and Purple Hearts
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“There was this big possum on the side of the road. He wasn’t hurt at all, except he was dead.”
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Santa Rick
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"I remember seeing your face and I was shocked."
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The Spirit of Generosity

Stories celebrating kindness and forgiveness

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“I went through 39 years of incarceration because of some things that you put in motion.”
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“I went through 39 years of incarceration because of some things that you put in motion.”
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Julio Diaz

Julio Diaz
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"You can hear the shopping cart coming down the sidewalk."

"You can hear the shopping cart coming down the sidewalk."
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A Second Chance
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A Second Chance

Animated Shorts

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Chloe Longfellow
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Yelitza Castro and Willie Davis

Become Inspired

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“When I buy a new book, I don’t start reading the first page. I smell it.”
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“When I buy a new book, I don’t start reading the first page. I smell it.”

At StoryCorps in Chicago, Alagappa Rammohan shares with his daughter, Paru Venkat, a love letter to the written word.
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Old Guitars and Purple Hearts
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Old Guitars and Purple Hearts

Two stories of people reuniting with family treasures, and the way that objects can live on long after a person is gone.
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“There was this big possum on the side of the road. He wasn’t hurt at all, except he was dead.”
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“There was this big possum on the side of the road. He wasn’t hurt at all, except he was dead.”

Bud and Jackie Jones are career taxidermists who helped bring a completely different kind of New Year’s Eve celebration to their small town of Tallapoosa, Georgia.
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Santa Rick
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Santa Rick

'Tis the season of reunions on the StoryCorps podcast, but we’re bringing you something a little different for the holidays. In this week’s episode, how one man’s Jewish faith actually helped him find his spiritual calling… as Santa Claus.
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